Short report: Duration of tick attachment required for transmission of Powassan virus by deer ticks

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 268-271

  Ebel, Gregory D ^a   Kramer, Laura D ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LARVA; MOLTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TICK; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIREMIA; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; BABESIA; BABESIA MICROTI; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CERVIDAE; FLAVIVIRUS; IXODES; IXODES DAMMINI; IXODES SCAPULARIS; POWASSAN VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 4544386868     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2004.71.3.0700268     Document Type: Article

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